Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web12705.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.242]) by tyner.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tsoab1.er2.37kbi5q for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:34:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20011016123439.29796.qmail@web12705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.197.171] by web12705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:34:39 PDT Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:34:39 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 460/3 corrected; discregard earlier copies (sorry) To: MPCGram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ----------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 460 Tuesday, October 16, 2001 More on Bernhard Fakes by Herb Friedman Just read Joe's wonderful piece about the Bernhard forgeries. It is a great field and very complex. He mentioned a St. James forgery. I never heard of that one, but before Operation Bernhard there was an Operation Andrew, and that is probably what the dealer was talking about. During Andrew the British paper stock, watermark, and serial number codes were broken. However, they did not have the skilled workforce of Jewish printers and engravers. They did produce 500,000 pounds in excellent forgeries before being shut down. The second operation commenced in 1942 when SS Department VI-F-4 established Operation Bernhard in Block 19 of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They produced about 600-million pounds of counterfeit currency. On another subject, the NY times had an article on Afghanistan Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/weekinreview/14ZELLER.html There is an old military saying about "screwing the pooch." The above article in the New York Times was a Hell of an attempt to discuss PSYOP, but the author made numerous mistakes. It is a shame that he didn't send one of us the article to edit before he went to print. He speaks of a banknote that has a group of Iraqi soldiers eating in captivity on the back. There is no such leaflet. The "banana" leaflet he is talking about is a standard safe conduct pass and not one of the currency pieces that the 4th group prepared. The leaflets found in the Iraqi abandoned bunker did not mention Tom Cruise or Tom Selleck. That propaganda was broadcast over the radio by Baghdad Betty. Other than those errors the article is accurate. Even More by Joe Boling On re-reading my column about the Bernhard notes, I see that there are hazards to working late, and away from my library. I made two errors. The sentence "The other alleged Bernhard pieces I have seen have it only modestly offset to the left" (referring to the curved line joining the base of the first N in England of the watermark) should have said "The genuine pieces I have seen have it it only modestly offset to the left." The point here is that the Bernhard piece I bought that I thought was good has that line almost all the way off of the base of the N to the left, much farther offset than the genuine pieces I examined in London. The other error was that I misspelled Brian Burke's name (as Brian Bruce). ============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------- Judy pointed out to me that today is national Boss's Day! She was thinking about her principal at school and things like that, but I instantly thought about the well known and established Gram chain of command. Today is the day to pay homage to The Boss. ============================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Gram headquarters!! The below message may also be a little beside normal Gram contents. But nevertheless, on September 26, my wife Sandy gave birth to a little daughter after a rough go. A little blackhaired beauty of 3.9 kgs, 53 cm. We haven't decided on a name yet, here in Denmark we have up to six months after birth to think about that!! We send the best wishes to inhabitants and visitors at the headquaters, Flemming Dear Flemming, Thanks for the update, but there are a few problems. I assume that you want to sign the new collector up for the Fest, but we cannot do that without a name--it is a rule set down by the boss. We also do not allow new collectors below the age of 8 weeks to have their own Gram subscription. I had thought that the best way to make collectors was to publish books and an electronic newsletter, but you have shown me that there is another way and it might even be more fun! Editor Hey Dude, You already used this gram number (457, on 8 October), and Sunday (today) is not the 16th. There was some overlapping of grams in the 454-455-456 series. Most of gram 455 duplicated gram 454; The Thrill of the Hunt appeared in both 454 and 456; and then you used #457 twice without duplicating any of the principal content. The gram you said would be in my box when I got up Saturday never arrived. Joe Dear Joe, Well on the calendar at least I know what happened, I had the right day--but the wrong month! Editor ================================================ Departments ------------------------------------------------- Calendar of events for Gramsters maintained by Howard Daniel, Nancy and John Wilson and Gram staff, last updated September 7, 2001 show reports are requested on all events. 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